From Olympics organisers deciding to sell ‘smelly tickets’ so fans can ‘scent the excitement’ and sniff the sport that they have paid to watch, to Richard Branson announcing that he had purchased Pluto to herald a new age in space tourism, telling Twitter followers: ‘I have bought Pluto & intend to reinstate it as a planet’, April Fools’ Day was full of surprises.

Twitter users who love Nando’s also sported lots of sad unsmiling faces after waking up to see #ripnandos was trending on the site, and a lot of them fell for the joke that the restaurant was closing down.

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